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Governor signs bill expanding in-state preference for NM contractors

SANTA FE Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday signed into law a bill expanding the in-state preference that New Mexico-based businesses get when applying.

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The untold story of the world s fiercest tank battle

The untold story of the world’s fiercest tank battle National Geographic © Photograph Eric Bouvet, Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images None The most pitched tank battle in the history of warfare was fought not against the Nazis in Europe or North Africa but just 30 years ago, in the desert of Iraq. Operation Desert Sabre, the four-day ground offensive of the six-week military operation known as Desert Storm, involved a fierce tank-against-tank campaign that outstripped even World War II’s savage battle of Kursk, which saw some 6,000 German and Soviet tanks battle over a grueling six-week period. “Kursk was bigger if you consider the entire campaign,” says retired colonel and historian Gregory Fontenot, who commanded a tank battalion in what was perhaps Desert Storm’s most intense few hours an overnight free-for-all that participants later called Fright Night.

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Hudson s American Heritage Museum displays tanks, aircraft and weapons

Chris Bergeron Daily News Correspondent Entering the American Heritage Museum, the first thing visitors see is the opening sentence of the Declaration of Independence, “When in the Course of human events .” on the Orientation Theatre wall. Like soldiers rushing into combat, they will continue into an immersive World War I Trench Experience in which one of the few surviving M1917 6-ton tanks built in the U.S. leads an American-led force into battle. Welcome to a history lesson about courage, freedom and the military s role in protecting democracy with 40-ton tanks as teaching aids. Visitors will walk through a 67,000 square foot building in which gargantuan armored vehicles - and a captured Iraqi SCUD missile and other rare military artifacts – offer vital lessons about history too often misconstrued in the hot gas of political rhetoric.

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The untold story of the world s fiercest tank battle

30 years ago, thousands of tanks faced off on a desert battlefield. Today, ‘Fright Night’ still haunts these Gulf War veterans.

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The untold story of the world s fiercest tank battle

The untold story of the world s fiercest tank battle
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